My apologies for the disruption to the league two weeks ago. I had to take some needed time off to attend to a personal matter, but now everything is great & back to normal! I greatly appreciate the kind words and thoughts from everyone. But now I'm ready to get back to work with the SFCCL!SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

This update begins Week 20 of this season. As is traditional, inter-divisional matches occur every five weeks, and Week 20 is no different. The rotation this time is to have the Silver Division fighters defend their rankings from the Bronzer Division. The A Division will fight the smaller B Division, with the remaining A Division fighters matched up in regular matches. Due to the smaller league, the B Division is only has 12 fighters. For those new to the league, inter-divisional matches offer the opportunity for your fighter to jump into another division simply by winning your match this week. If you are already in the higher division, then your fighter is defending their ranking from the same ranked fighter in the lower division. The schedule changes each time out (Gold vs Silver or Silver vs Bronze). With the extension of Week 19, we may only have 24 weeks this season, so this week's inter-divisional matches may be the last time we play them this season. The season may also be cut shorter, but more on that later.Week 19 is officially closed, and despite the addtional two weeks to play (28 days total), several matches did not get completed. Last week, I sent out an email and PSN message to all members who still had one or two of their matches unplayed. That message contained a warning that any member who did not play their 2 matches during Week 19 would be dropped from the league as it equates to 2 standard league weeks due to the extention. Normally, I hesitate to kick someone out of the league. However, in this case, if a member cannot (or does not) play their 2 matches over a 4-week timeframe nor do they communicate with anyone over that sime time period, then they obviously shouldn't be in the league. All it does is waste their opponent's time and my time. As the admin of this league, it is my responsibility to remove these types of members for everyone else. Therefore, several members were dropped due to this unique rule. Overall, 75% of the matches were completed last week, which made it the 14th best week of the season in terms of match completion.

A special blog was posted yesterday (Sunday, April 10th) to announce the details of the 5th Live Event this season: the 2vs2 Tournament. The event will be held later this week on Sunday, April 17th, 2011. The event will begin at 6:00 PM (18:00) London time (1 PM Eastern / 12 PM Central / 10 AM Pacific). The day and time was selected to be convenient for our European members, but is also an easy time for all of us in the Americas Region. Teams can be created in advance, but of course, both members must be online at the time of the event to play. Otherwise, members will be matched up randomly. Since the European members cannot access the PS Home US servers, we will all meet in a SFCCL Text Chat to organize the matches. Once the first round matches are announced, all future communication will be sent via PSN message since the text chat tends to create lag for those playing. To curb the time spent playing these live events, the 2vs2 Tournament will be a single-elimination tournament. However, all matches will be best 2 out of 3 five-round matches. Prize Matches will be awarded to the top 3 teams. See the specific blog below for further details.Another recent blog mentioned the "unofficial" annoucement of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition coming to consoles in the form of DownLoadable Content (DLC). There has been no official announcement yet by Capcom, so pricing and date details are unknown at this time. It is rumored to be coming in June of this year. If that is the case, our season will still be going on at that time, ever perhaps the season-ending SUPER BRAWL II tournament. Since we don't know exactly how or if the new DLC will interact with standard SSFIV, I am leary of having the season spill over into the DLC era. The changes will be subtle, however, having the DLC will create an unfair balance to the players with the new improvements. Therefore, it is very possible that this season will be cut ever shorter in anticipation of the DLC coming to the PS3. I hope to have the season completed prior to the DLC becoming available. However, until Capcom releases an official announcement, the season will continue as planned. When an announcement finally does come from Capcom, I will then make an announcement on the remaining part of the season. I've added the SSFIV:AE trailer to my blog down below (hopefully, this one at GT lasts a while).

The SUPER BRAWL II tournament is the season-ending event for all members in the league. It is the grand finale of the season, and crowns our final Grand Champion. For this season, the tournament will seed 64 fighters in the brackets (compared to 128 fighter last season). As a result, the opening rounds of the tournament will be held during Week 24 so that we can trim our fighting roster down to 64 fighters to begin the tournament. As of Week 20, we have 50 member / 100 fighters. If the opening rounds were to take place this week, the lowest ranking 72 fighters would be matched up with the winner advancing to the official tournament. In other words, all of the fighters in the Gold Division and the top 12 fighters in the Silver Division would automatically quailify for SUPER BRAWL II. All fighters ranked #12 in the Silver Division and below would have to win their play-in match to qualify for the tournament. Of course, the number of members & fighters may change by the time we get to Week 24. For those former members who wanted to return in time for SUPER BRAWL II, please take note that no new members will be added to the league after Week 24, which is when we begin the play-in matches. Of course, all of this is subject to change depending on the SSFIV: AE DLC becoming available. Again, I will make that official announcement once we know the details. So be ready!The SFCCL is 50 members (100 fighters) strong going into Week 20 with members in 7 different countries.

Nine (9) members are no longer part of the SFCCL following last week:Doctor_Rouse Ken123103PutThatCoffeeDwn (resigned)Red---RangerSolidxPandaAgent-Mahone68Lucho_83CorQn-Lisa (resigned)T01v11v1yWe have eight (8) new members this week:Brainswho (Georgia)Dromekilla (California)ElSwiveo (Colorado)Kommander-Kev (Canada)Lazyboy32 (California)ND2130srk (Virginia)Missdiamonds09 (Germany)Sim2468 (Germany)Welcome to the SFCCL!The following 'Auto-Promotions' occurred as a result of the departures:

RED Division: 3 spotsBLUE Division: 4 New Members (division only has 8 fighters)

Any fighter that did not play their matches do not benefit from these Auto-Promotions, and could see other fighters jump them in the rankings. Even if your fighter lost last week, he/she could have moved up in the rankings due to the openings left by the departing members. However, only fighters that completed their matches can benefit from the auto-promotions. It pays to play, win or lose.

Members changing fighters and Division change:ModeType_Beast T. HAWK to SETH (A Division to B Division)ModeType_Beast ABEL to BISON (A Division to B Division)Wauhti MAKOTO to SAKURA (Red Division to Blue Division)Any member in the league can change their fighter, but it will result in a penalty of the new fighter dropping one division and starting at the #15 ranking, unless of course, the division is closed which will result in the new fighter starting at the bottom of the next lower division.

THE WAITING LISTS

Only one player remains on the Waiting Lists (Apple25 from Kansas). To be added to the SFCCL, a player must accept my Friend Request on the PSN. If not, then they will be placed on the Waiting List until next week. If they have still not accepted the Request after a minimum of two weeks, their name will be removed.Feel free to recomment the league to all of your online friends and rivals. The biggest complitment you can pay me or the league is to recommend it to others.DEADLINE FOR WEEK 20

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SFCCL-SALonghorn

Creator & Administrator of the SFCCL

PSN: SFCCL-SALonghornPSN: SALonghornI've been playing Street Fighter since it was released for the SNES, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. That was over 20 years ago! With the release of Street Fighter 4 for the PS3, I thought it would be fun to organize an online league. The idea for this league dates back to my SNES days when my friends & family created a Champion & Contender system. Back then, we were barely 6 people who would get together once a week. Obviously, the system has grown...

The SFCCL launched in March of 2009. Originally composed of 16 Official PSN message board members, the league continued for the next 14 months ending with the first-ever SUPER BRAWL tournament in April 2010. Including all matches during the season and tournaments, there were a total of 1,400 matches in Season 1 and nearly 200 members over that time period. Season 2 began in June 2010 and had over 200 players participating with 38 final members in Super Brawl II.